From: "Maan M. Hamze" <mmhamze AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: OpenDOS to be released next week!
Date: 25 Jan 1997 04:40:22 GMT
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Gene Buckle <geneb AT web DOT wa DOT net> wrote in article
<Pine DOT LNX DOT 3 DOT 93 DOT 970124164202 DOT 8978B-100000 AT web DOT wa DOT net>...
> 
> > Will OpenDOS work with 4DOS?  If so, how will job control be accessed?
> > 
> > 
> Yes it will.  There is an option you must set if you use 4DOS with
> TaskMgr.  See the README.TXT (release notes) file in the archive for more
> info.
> 
Hi Gene...This is excellent since this was going to be one of my questions.
 I tried to download openDOS with no success.
Let me recommend the following:
1.  On the download page please add a note on the total byte length of the
pacakge, and
2.  For the OpenDOS Disk Set I hope there is another page, accessed through
clicking on that link, which divides the set into the actual 
number of disks so we can download any disk that we like to download.

having said that, I'll try to download it again....I've got to try the
multitasking capability:  being able to run 3d Studio R3 while rendering
the 
frames of an animation through a tool with Povray 3 for dos seems to be an
exciting prospect.

Finally, some more questions that I hope you can answer:
1.  Is there any support for Multi-Users like in Linux in addition to
multi-tasking?
2.  Any thoughts about making OpenDOS as 32-bit protected OS environment?
3.  I have Win95/DOS 7 and I use 4DOS.  Concerning win95:  will I be able
to start win95 after installing OpenDOS?
     How does OpenDOS co-exist with win95?  No problems I hope!  Or should
we have a new partition to boot using OpenDOS thus
     making win95 inaccessible?

Thanks for any answers!
Maan
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